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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.

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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Voice Actor
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: “Don’t you feel pressure on you?” I said: “Want to know something, I’m worried about the guy who’s going to have to replace me.”
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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